Data Science Manager
In a nutshell
We are looking for an inquisitive, ambitious, and dynamic individual to join our Data Science team as we continue to develop innovative ways to deliver insight, strategy and consultancy to our clients. In your role as a Data Science manager, your skills and deep understanding of Data Science and Analytics will be key in uncovering valuable insights to guide our clients' decisions. You'll rely on your solid skills in data analysis, machine learning, and statistical modelling to lead smaller projects and contribute to larger ones. Moving beyond purely technical work, you'll start to manage our talented people and lead our analytics initiatives. Throughout, you’ll keep growing your expertise, learning new techniques, and pushing the boundaries of what our data can tell us.
Your skills & experience
You will:
- run a range of key standard methodologies and execute them independently;
- present the findings and implications of the results to a non-technical audience;
- align client business problems into analytical solutions;
- lead data science projects with your manager’s supervision;
- conduct research to identify new opportunities for data science applications within the industry and spot new opportunities to meet client needs;
- develop custom scripts or tools to streamline routine tasks;
- present results of data science solutions, ensuring they are clearly translated to internal and external clients;
- get involved in team development initiatives and run new methodologies;
- get involved in Yonder-wide initiatives and developments; and
- contribute to internal and external meetings with ideas and suggestions.
You must:
- have at least 3-5 years’ experience running statistical analysis on a range of data sources, especially survey data within the market research industry;
- have excellent communication skills and can easily and clearly explain complex concepts in plain English;
- have experience leading in major projects and can easily and clearly explain complex analytical concepts to colleagues and clients in plain English;
- consistently demonstrate excellent communications skills, the ability to prioritise and multi-task on a daily basis, whilst meeting deadlines;
- take pride in and produce high-quality work, with attention to detail, and have the respect of your colleagues;
- You’re a team player and care about elevating and developing junior members of the team;
- are interested in social attitudes and what makes people, consumers and businesses tick;
- Technically, you are comfortable with supervised and unsupervised methods such as clustering and regression.
Technical must-haves:
- You have solid experience in Conjoint analysis, either using the Sawtooth suite of programmes or otherwise;
- You have solid experience running Segmentation projects using different clustering methods;
- You are expert with R and/or Python.
Nice-to-haves (we don’t expect you to have experience in all of them all, or even most of them):
- You have an interest in current affairs and politics;
- You have experience or knowledge of standard survey analytics such as MaxDiff, TURF, Key Drivers Analysis;
- You have experience or knowledge of Bayesian methods, machine learning methods, text analytics;
- You have experience or knowledge of analysing client’s CRM data;
- You have experience or knowledge of organisational or financial analytics;
- You are able to programme in VBA and build excel-based simulators.
The Team
This role sits within the Data Science Team, who works across all the teams in Yonder. The role will suit an ambitious, proactive and driven data scientist who loves solving problems, learning new things and devising novel solutions to our clients’ business problems.
Reporting to the Director of Data Science, this role will have high visibility across the business.
You’ll be joining Yonder at an exciting time as we have consolidated our consulting offer into areas including Brand Strategy, Culture, Product Development, Brand Loyalty, Finance and Corporate Reputation. This means you will have the chance to make an impact and apply your skills and thinking to an even wider and diverse set of clients and business problems.
What Yonder can offer you
Yonder is a fun and stimulating workplace. We reward people fairly and the company supports and encourages new ideas which will add value. We offer a competitive salary, 25 days holiday (plus your birthday day off!), a 5% employer pension contribution, life assurance, income protection and other benefits like flexible working and 4pm finishes on Fridays etc.
Our Values and behaviours
We Focus
- Engage / Express with clarity / Take a view / Be pragmatic
We Go Further
- Challenge the thinking / Be brave (backed by evidence) / Work at the edge/ Celebrate imagination
We Pursue Brilliance
- Discover what matters / Be a yardstick / Show professional integrity / Bring the energy
We’re In It Together
- Connect with authenticity / Be open / Lift yourself by lifting others / Muck in